Alliance Trust PLC : Transaction in Own Shares

The Board of Alliance Trust PLC ("the Company") announces that on 2 February 2017 the Company purchased for cancellation 294,208 ordinary shares of 2.5p each at a price of 649.1262p per share.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is now 481,465,022.

The above figure (481,465,022) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.